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Capturing Fluctuations in Pathogen Avoidance: the Situational Pathogen Avoidance Scale.


ABSTRACT: Pathogen avoidance is an important motive underlying human behavior and is associated with numerous psychological processes-including biases against social groups heuristically associated with illness. Although there are reliable measurement scales to assess chronic dispositional levels of pathogen avoidance, no measurement scale currently exists to directly assess moment-to-moment fluctuations in pathogen avoidance. This paper presents the Situational Pathogen Avoidance (SPA) scale, which assesses situational variability in pathogen avoidance, especially as it pertains to avoidance of social stimuli. Across six studies, we demonstrate the reliability and validity of the SPA scale, show that the scale is influenced by situational activation of pathogen avoidance motives, and demonstrate that it mediates the association between pathogen avoidance motives (both chronic and situational) and social biases against obese and foreign targets. The SPA scale provides a valuable measurement tool for researchers who study pathogen avoidance and to those who study social biases more generally.

SUBMITTER: Makhanova A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7424133 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Capturing Fluctuations in Pathogen Avoidance: the Situational Pathogen Avoidance Scale.

Makhanova Anastasia A   Plant E Ashby EA   Maner Jon K JK  

Evolutionary psychological science 20200813 1


Pathogen avoidance is an important motive underlying human behavior and is associated with numerous psychological processes-including biases against social groups heuristically associated with illness. Although there are reliable measurement scales to assess chronic dispositional levels of pathogen avoidance, no measurement scale currently exists to directly assess moment-to-moment fluctuations in pathogen avoidance. This paper presents the Situational Pathogen Avoidance (SPA) scale, which asses  ...[more]

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